Disney World Crowd Calendar Updated

By Dave Shute

CROWD CALENDAR UPDATED BASED ON JUNE 2011 DATA

My Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar is based largely on analysis of Disney World-provided data.

I have incorporated Disney’s recent release of June operating hours into the Walt Disney World crowd calendar.  You can find it here.

TOURINGPLANS.COM NOW PROVIDING HISTORICAL CROWD DATA

I’ve always suggested checking other crowd forecasts besides mine, and have always recommended touringplans.com as the first to check.

TouringPlans.com has gone through a renaissance of features and services over the past year or so, and one of their great new adds is a historical version of their crowd calendar, here.

A great use of the historical forecasts is to check something that seems odd to you.

For example, if the upcoming Columbus Day forecasts seem off to you, you can see how it was forecast in past years, as an additional data point.

Another advantage of the historical crowd calendar is that past days are rated according to touringplans.com’s current approach to labeling crowds.

This lets you relate touringplans.com’s new rating system with your own experiences of the parks by looking up their ratings of dates you were there.  (See this for more on the new system.)

For example, if you are not sure what a “3” rating means, but discover from the historical crowd rating that you were at the parks on “2” and “4” days last year…you can figure out what a “3” means!

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